Examples Of Joseph Stalin Propaganda

World leaders are leaders with high governmental power in the world. Every leader, not just world leaders, is either great or corrupt; they are rarely both. Most of Russia’s history is filled with corrupt leaders. Joseph was one of those leaders. Stalin killed millions of people during his rule. But Stalin also led the Soviet Union almost to the top in world power. Stalin had many influences that led him to his Soviet Leadership in which gave him many admirers but even more non-supporters.

The image of Stalin depicted in the poster 1.5.8 () , portrays Stalin as ‘God like,’ we see a figure, being looked upon by dancing children who are dressed in uniforms, looking up to Stalin as a strong ‘father like defender of the nation.’ (Pittaway, 2008p.142.) This ‘father’ title gave the impression that Stalin is trustworthy and caring. In addition, children presented a myth and used as propaganda to represent goodness, innocence, and the future. Stalin’s ideology was that if the children liked him, then he must be a good leader. Furthermore, the inscription shows

     Alike, “The Poster” was the most prominent form of psychological manipulation during Stalin's reign. Until World War I the poster had avoided social themes. However, as Stalin’s Russia rose to war and as a world power, the posters took a turn to be commercial and cultural, an attempt to develop an expanding market and advertise various entertainments. The posters of World War II took on a new task: to mobilize the population in support of the war effort. Stalin’s Posters featured themes of mobilizing the armed forces, reconstructing the economy, as well as various specific war time problems. It was at this point that the government began to make efforts to “shape public opinion” and “arouse patriotic feelings”. The government assigned this task to the mass media. Every political event in Russia found resonance in

Almost everyone knows what a monster Adolf Hitler was, but most people do not know that one of the great ally leader of World War II, Joseph Stalin, had committed even greater atrocities than Hitler. Joseph Stalin was a ruthless and yet diligent dictator of the Soviet Union, whose rise to power influenced a multitude of major events in his country’s history. Due to Stalin’s impactful reign, he made the Soviet Union become a global superpower, underwent difficult hardships such as the Great Famine in the Soviet Union, and after his death, caused the Soviet Union to go through a process known as de-Stalinization.

Literacy has been used in many forms throughout time and one of these forms is to revolt against unfair governments and totalitarian governments. These forms of literature often demonstrated another type of totalitarian government, the film ‘V for vendetta’ directed by James McTeigue and the novel ‘1984’ written by George Orwell are great examples of this. V for vendetta shows a totalitarian government in an alternative London and 1984 shows a totalitarian government in a fictional world.

Throughout historical times, the rule of Josef Stalin has been questioned due to his position as being one of the most popular and contentious leaders. Through the evaluation of his ruling within the Soviet Union, he can be seen as both a positive and negative ruler. His methods of changing the country following World War I were sudden, causing a complete change in societal ways of life in controversial ways. While his changes created one of the most powerful countries the world had ever seen at its’ time, they also caused for massive discontent within the citizens of Soviet Russia.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States went to war against Japan and the Axis Powers. The United States needed hope and something to influence them to do their best and win the war. During the beginning of the war, the citizens of the United States witnessed many different types of propaganda. The United States was influenced to join the war by these types of propaganda and as well the American people helped and supported the war. The majority of all of the propaganda was made to influence American men, women and children and to create a hatred for America’s enemies. Propaganda was necessary to influence the American people to help contribute to win World War II.

World War 2 is considered one of the worst conflicts that ever took place. An estimated 50 million soldiers were killed during World War 2. It led to the economies of many countries to fail, sending them into depressions. * Many factors contributed to victory of the allies, but one aspect that may have influenced the results of the war was the correct use of propaganda. Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary defines propaganda as an idea or statement that is often exaggerated and is spread in order to spread a cause, political leader, government,etc (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/propaganda).

Propaganda and the agendas of totalitarian leaders contributed to a breakdown of the democratic ideals by, making sets of rules and illuminating a form of threat to their policies. They also used propaganda to convince a vast majority of people to follow their form of government and take any rights from the people which they used to give the government more power. Previously but devastating ww1 which caused an infinite amount of debt and great depression to the central powers( Germany, Austria Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire). The reader will need to know about the agenda of the totalitarian leader, why they did what they did.

Propaganda today is not really used in today's society. However in the book “1984” written by George Orwell and in Nazi Germany, propaganda was used in every opportunity that was given. The propaganda used was to serve two simple purposes. One purpose is to brainwash the people into believing that whatever the government is doing is right and the second purpose is to get the people to hate a certain group of people or ideology. In “1984” and in Nazi Germany they used propaganda to the fullest extent. Propaganda can be used in multiple forms: posters, radio broadcasting, t.v. broadcasting and a bunch of other ways.

“Crude, primitive, vulgar”; “muddle instead of music”; “a cacophonous and pornographic insult to the Soviet people”. Pravda, the Soviet government newspaper, made these comments after Joseph Stalin attended a 1936 performance of Dmitri Shostakovich’s opera. His second and final opera, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, got it him into all sorts of trouble because it denounced sexism in Russia. After this intense criticism from the government and threats of arrest, Shostakovich was forced to withdraw the premiere of his equally controversial Fourth Symphony. In order to please the government, he quickly put together a more traditional, triumphant Fifth Symphony (1937); he even referred to it as “a Soviet artist’s reply to just criticism.”

Stalin had an incredibly similar attitude to Vissorian as a child. He had a very cold personality and lacked a sense of empathy, especially towards his peers. One of his classmates reported that he had never seen him cry and that he greeted his peers with a snide chuckle instead of showing sympathy or compassion when he saw they were suffering. He was top and center in his school portrait. (This bared an unusual similarity to Adolf Hitler who took the same position in his school portrait). Stalin was born into poverty and suffered a series of health complications growing up. He suffered from small pox at a young age and his face was left permanently marked, resulting in nicknames like ‘pocky’ and ‘pock-marked-joe’. He was born with his second and third toe conjoined and due to blood poisoning; his right arm was made shortened and stiff. Stalin was abused by both his parents, his father in particular, although his mother claimed he had a wonderful childhood and home life.

The soviet communist party, or the Bolsheviks, always new that strong propaganda was essential to increase the consciousness of the masses. As stated in the Encyclopedia of Propaganda, " propaganda was central to Marxist-Leninist ideology long before the Bolshevik revolution of 1917."(675) The power of persuasion and coercion were exercised with great force by Soviet leaders. The two leaders whom utilized propaganda to influence public opinion in the USSR were Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin. Both men used many different facets of the media to spread their propaganda. They also used the troubled social climate along with the ignorance of the masses to custom tailor a regime that lasted for over seven decades.

Consequences of Joseph Stalin's Leadership Stalin began his rise to power after the death of Lenin in 1924. At this time, Russia was in social, political and economic turmoil and suffering from ailing international relations following the revolution of 1917 and growth of a one party communist sate. The 'uprising of the proletariat' had occurred in a country without a recognisable working class. In order for Russian industry to develop, the political system needed stabilising and capital invested in the major companies. Stalin implemented hard-line tactics to obtain this in the shortest possible time - the consequences of this method of developing the country are to be discussed in this essay.

During Stalin’s reign, there were many problems in the USSR: economic problems, social problems and political. Due to these problems Stalin developed many domestic policies in order to counter these problems and try to avoid an uprising. These plans were put into motion almost immediately during Stalin’s reign, but they proved unsuccessful and Stalin was unable to solve the problems that existed within the Soviet Union.